The Palmerston Forts Society

The Palmerston Forts Society is an educational charity dedicated to the study and preservation of Victorian foritification and associated artillery, in the United Kingdom and worldwide. The Society was formed in 1984 by a group of people enthusiastic about the Victorian fortifications of Portsmouth - which include of course, the Forts on Portsdown Hill, Portsmouth. These, together with the forts surrounding Plymouth, Pembroke, Portland, Dover, Chatham, Medway, and other lesser fortresses, were built on the recommendation of a Royal Commission which reported in 1860. Its findings were supported whole-heartedly by the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, whose name quickly became associated with the Forts and gives us the name for our Society. The Society is based at Fort Nelson on Portsdown Hill, near Fareham in Hampshire, which is also the home of the Royal Armouries museum of artillery.

 

Activities, Meetings and Events

Social events will be another attraction for members.The Society acts as a forum for research on the Victorian Fortifications of the Portsmouth and Solent area and the U.K. A journal is published each year.

 

The Society arranges working parties and educational programmes of lectures, talks and visits to forts. We meet at Fort Nelson 7:30p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of each month, except August and December.

 

Portsdown Artillery Volunteers

The uniformed section of the Society is the Portsdown Artillery Volunteers. They regularly perform authentic Victorian gun drills on some of the guns at Fort Nelson and other forts. If YOU are interested in this fascinating subject, you may like to become a member of the Palmerston Forts Society and thus help to bring life back to Fort Nelson and the other Victorian forts of Portsmouth and the U.K.

 

 

 

P.F.S. Latest News   Website upgrade by David posted on 01 Jul 2009 July Meeting by Michael posted on 25 Jun 2009 Change of Meetings Secretary by David posted on 16 Jun 2009 64pr RML mounted at Fort Nelson by David posted on 16 Jun 2009 Newsletter No.98 - May 2009 by David posted on 17 May 2009 Work Parties May & June 2009 by Michael posted on 16 May 2009 Forts Guns and Holes by David posted on 10 May 2009 Balance sheet by David posted on 10 May 2009 Panoramas by David posted on 09 May 2009 Members' gallery by David posted on 19 Apr 2009 Fort Darland by David posted on 16 Apr 2009 PFS Talks 2009 by Michael posted on 31 Mar 2009 Fort Brockhurst Opening dates 2009 by Geoffrey Hallett posted on 27 Mar 2009 Andrew Saunders by David posted on 20 Mar 2009 Geoff Salter by David posted on 07 Mar 2009 See News Page for details   Send a message to the PFS

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